Re: Bug#143941: define a usable character set for description/maintainer name etc.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:16:59PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Radovan Garabik wrote:
> > still much better than current situation
>
> No it is not: currently as you mention we have a mix of different
> character sets used in a single file and no tool to handle that at all.
> If a string is displayed correctly is more based on luck than anything
> else and will certainly not be displayed correctly for the vast majority
> of users. That is not a good situation.
that's exactly what I meant.
>
> > I won't repeat my arguments I explained then.
> > Just the most relevant issue: for packages file (and similar),
> > we have to choose if we use pure ASCII, or UTF-8. There is no other way,
> > and it has been agreed that for woody we would not change anything
>
> For woody ASCII is the only possibility.
if it concerns only Packages file, yes. Otherwise (for
debian.changelog etc.) I would not try to force
developpers to use specified charset (be it ascii or utf-8)
just now, wait after woody+1 is being prepared.
> After woody we can look at
> implementing utf8 and afterwards update policy.
>
update policy as soon as woody is out, then we can concentrate
on making tools (making dselect & comp. locale and iconv aware
would be quite enough as a first step)
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